Katie Chimes

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Katie Chimes
age 32

Lon­don, UK

Mea­sure­ment: 33−26−34

Weight 50 kg

Chi­ro­prac­tor, Per­sonal trainer, Life coach­ing, and Fit­ness Model

"Hello, my name is Katie and I have been pas­sion­ate about fit­ness since a very early age. When I was 6, my dad took me out for a run and I remem­ber wear­ing a pair of bur­gundy Vel­cro train­ers which I thought were the bee’s knees. Since that moment, I fell in love with run­ning and I joined a run­ning club.

A year after that, my mum tricked me into going swim­ming with some friends when in fact she took me along for the try outs for our local swim­ming club. I sub­se­quently joined the swim­ming club after that. There­fore since the ages of 7 I have actively com­peted in both swim­ming and athletics.

When I was 16, I did work expe­ri­ence in the local gym and due to my sheer love of fit­ness and sports I decided I wanted to work within the fit­ness indus­try. I did my pre­mier diploma when I was 18 and then worked my way up work­ing as a fit­ness instruc­tor and per­sonal trainer. It was through­out this time that I fell in love with weight train­ing and around the age of 19 I got into weight train­ing more seriously.

After a few years of work­ing in the fit­ness indus­try, I then started to work more closely with patients who were recov­er­ing from strokes and work­ing with other health care prac­ti­tion­ers such as chi­ro­prac­tors to help with reha­bil­i­ta­tion of peo­ple with back injuries and sports injuries.

I loved what I did but I found that my own train­ing started to suf­fer as I was always work­ing in the gym from 6am until some­times 11pm 5 – 7 days a week. My own train­ing became a bit of a chore for me. I also found it a lit­tle frus­trat­ing not know­ing how to com­pletely help a per­son recover fully with­out hav­ing to speak to a chi­ro­prac­tor first espe­cially with back pain patients. As my uncle is a chi­ro­prac­tor and I had a sheer fas­ci­na­tion of how the body worked, I decided to become a chi­ro­prac­tor myself.

Going back into full time study was a bit daunt­ing at first, but now look­ing back it was one of the best deci­sions I made. I now work as a chi­ro­prac­tor and my train­ing for me is now some­thing sep­a­rate from what I do day to day. The way the body copes and deals with stresses in amaz­ing and learn­ing and see­ing how chi­ro­prac­tic helps patients, not just with back and neck pain but with a whole load of mir­a­cles I know I have cho­sen a pro­fes­sion that I am very proud to be a part of.

In recent years I have also become very inter­ested in cer­tain types of nutri­tion that being of raw juic­ing, tak­ing chlorella and spir­ulina and read­ing more about a low sugar diet. That has started to shape my thoughts a lot more and that is what I have writ­ten about on this site. The rea­son we have built this web­site is because I have had so many peo­ple ask­ing me what it is that I do to get in shape, how I train and how I eat etc. Instead of hav­ing to con­tin­u­ally email each per­son indi­vid­u­ally, I thought I would put some infor­ma­tion in one place so peo­ple could use it as a resource. I have stud­ied the human body intensely for years and I have also done a lot of read­ing around nutrition.

I do not call myself a nutri­tion­ist in any way, and the top­ics and infor­ma­tion on this site are just areas that I per­son­ally find inter­est­ing, that work for me and is some­thing that I want to share. On this site I have also added books and video’s that I have found par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing in the area of nutri­tion and health along with music and train­ing that I do."

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In an interview by R_X Muscle, Katie was asked:

Q: Steroids are a hot button topic in the fitness world. I will not ask if you use, but do you feel steroids are widely used by women in the industry? Is it a stigma or a necessity in the industry?

A: I personally have never used steroids and never will. Steroids can be used for all kinds of gains. Some physique girls do use them and if they do it’s their choice. I have nothing against them; I just personally would not use them.

There are so many categories within the fitness industry now that people do not need to use them. I would not like to use them as I would feel like I’m messing around with the natural hormones in my body plus getting big or increasing muscle size is not a goal for me, in fact quite the opposite.



When training for a competition I do a lot of cardio so that I go into more of a catabolic state to decrease the muscle size within my thighs. I personally want to make gains the natural way

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